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DANIEL C. RIPLEY, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO RIPLEY t CO., OF THE SAME PLACE.

Letters .Patent No. 73,122, dated January 7, 1868.

IMPROVED GLASS LAMP.

@Le tlgetule ruimt tu in this@ liitcts 'Qatuit mit limiting niet nt ,ttt time TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: @ff f Be it known that I, D. C. RIPLEY, of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and improved Lamp; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and i exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification,

Y in'which-v Figure l is a side elevation, showing both handles. Figure fis a side elevation, showing an edge view of one handle only. i Figure 3 is a side elevation of the cast base and handles of the lamp. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to a new and im with handles. It consists in producing the base and handle or handles b and then forming the bowl or foun/tain by blowing the thereby admitting of lamps being manufactured with gr old process, as will be hereinafter described. i To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I will describe its construction and operation. The drawings represent a glass lamp, which is constructed with a conical base, A, two handles, B B, which y pressing the glass in suitable moulds, glass upon said pressed base andlhandle or handles, eat facility, and made much stronger than under the are diametrically opposite each other, and a hollow bowl or flattened globe, C. The glass hase A, with the two handles B B, are produced in one piece by the well-known process of pressing the glass in a suitable mould. This gives a very strong and substantial base-support to the lamp, and by this process the parts represented in 3 can be made in one piece, and with great facility. The bowl C is then produced by blowing it upon the upper edges of the handles and base. v i p It will be seen, by reference to iig. 3, that the upper edges of the handles B are formed so as to leave a seat, into which 'the base of the bowl is received. means of securing the bowl to the base.

I have shown in the drawings a lamp, having two handles cast or pressed on the base A,`and arranged diametrically opposite each other, and I prefer to construct my lamps in this manner, for convenience in handling them, and passing them from one person to another. By having two handles, it will, underno circumstances, be necessary to grasp the lamp by its bowl or conical base, as the lamp can be taken from a persons hand by the handle which is opposite that held by such person; consequently, lamps of this kind, viz, with two handles, will not be liable to fall from the hand, and it will not be necessary to soil the lingers with oil, which is usually on the bowls of lamps.

I do not desire to'confine my process of making the lamps to the two handles, although greater strength is obtained by having two handles, and by my process two handles can-be made ne as one.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A lamp, which is constructed with a pressed base, A, and one or two handles, B, and a globe, C', blown thereupon, substantially as described.'

Witness my hand, in the mattei' of my application for a patent for an Aimproved lamp.

DANIEL C. RIPLEY.

Thus the handles are made to serve as a support for and a arly as quick and as cheap Witnesses:

`A. B. Srnvsnson,

PHILIP Hosea.

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